Aaron Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3760573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Berman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hampshire College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1644-5798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kinds Before Their Concepts: Practical Anchoring and Conceptual Opacity in the Historiography of Race
Many social kinds are opaque in that they may be explanatorily useful without depending upon propositional attitudes directed at them. This article asks how historians can account for the emergence of opaque social kinds in advance of their recognition by contemporary actors without falling into problematic anachronism. To explore this problem, I examine the historical hypothesis that modern racial kinds emerged in the immediate post-Columbian pe…
Ryan Gustafson, Derrida’s Social Ontology: Institutions in Deconstruction (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States
Bradley W. Hart knows how to tell a good story. Hitler's American Friends is well paced, informative, and fun to read (if the word fun can be used when discussing how fascism threatened to come to power in the United States). If I were teaching an introductory course on American politics and society in the 1930s and 1940s, I would certainly assign this book, not only because it provides a good introduction to the history of the far Right but also…
Rescue Through Statehood
FDR and the Holocaust
Journal Article FDR and the Holocaust. Ed. by Verne W. Newton. (New York: St. Martin's, 1996. x, 278 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-312-12226-8.) Get access Aaron Berman Aaron Berman Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 724–725, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952703 Published: 01 September 1997
The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience with Terrorism
Journal Article The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience with Terrorism. By Jeffrey D. Simon. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. x, 463 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-35249-5.) Get access Aaron Berman Aaron Berman Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1656–1657, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945446 Publishe…
"Berman, "Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism, 1933-1948
Reluctant Ally: United States Foreign Policy toward the Jews from Wilson to Roosevelt
Introduction Woodrow Wilson During the Great War Woodrow Wilson and the King Crane Commission to the Near East Woodrow Wilson and the Minorities Treaties Charles R. Crane's Crusade for the Arabs, 1919-1939 The Onset of the Hitlerian Period, 1933-1941 American Diplomacy Toward the Jews During the Hitlerian Period Afterword: America's Response to the Holocaust--A Controversy Bibliography Index
Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism, 1933-1948.
A Second Chance for American Zionists
The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives
The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives. Comp. by Charles Lawrence Gellert. (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1989. vi + 117 pp. $17.00.) Get access Aaron Berman Aaron Berman Hampshire College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1457–1458, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078427 Published: …
Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism: 1933-1948
Journal Article Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism: 1933–1948. By Aaron Berman. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990. 238 pp. $34.95.) Get access Leonard Dinnerstein Leonard Dinnerstein University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Page 725, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079656 Published: 01 September 1991
Forestville Tales: International Folk Stories
On American Jewish History
Forestville Tales: International Folk Tales
On American Jewish History
Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism: 1933-1948
Journal Article Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism: 1933–1948. By Aaron Berman. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990. 238 pp. $34.95.) Get access Leonard Dinnerstein Leonard Dinnerstein University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Page 725, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079656 Published: 01 September 1991
Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States
Bradley W. Hart knows how to tell a good story. Hitler's American Friends is well paced, informative, and fun to read (if the word fun can be used when discussing how fascism threatened to come to power in the United States). If I were teaching an introductory course on American politics and society in the 1930s and 1940s, I would certainly assign this book, not only because it provides a good introduction to the history of the far Right but also…
The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience with Terrorism
Journal Article The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience with Terrorism. By Jeffrey D. Simon. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. x, 463 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-35249-5.) Get access Aaron Berman Aaron Berman Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1656–1657, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945446 Publishe…
Reluctant Ally: United States Foreign Policy toward the Jews from Wilson to Roosevelt
Introduction Woodrow Wilson During the Great War Woodrow Wilson and the King Crane Commission to the Near East Woodrow Wilson and the Minorities Treaties Charles R. Crane's Crusade for the Arabs, 1919-1939 The Onset of the Hitlerian Period, 1933-1941 American Diplomacy Toward the Jews During the Hitlerian Period Afterword: America's Response to the Holocaust--A Controversy Bibliography Index
Forestville Tales: International Folk Tales
On American Jewish History
Forestville Tales: International Folk Stories
Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism, 1933-1948.
A Second Chance for American Zionists
The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives
The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives. Comp. by Charles Lawrence Gellert. (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1989. vi + 117 pp. $17.00.) Get access Aaron Berman Aaron Berman Hampshire College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1457–1458, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078427 Published: …
Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism: 1933-1948
Journal Article Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism: 1933–1948. By Aaron Berman. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990. 238 pp. $34.95.) Get access Leonard Dinnerstein Leonard Dinnerstein University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Page 725, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079656 Published: 01 September 1991
Reluctant Ally: United States Foreign Policy toward the Jews from Wilson to Roosevelt
Introduction Woodrow Wilson During the Great War Woodrow Wilson and the King Crane Commission to the Near East Woodrow Wilson and the Minorities Treaties Charles R. Crane's Crusade for the Arabs, 1919-1939 The Onset of the Hitlerian Period, 1933-1941 American Diplomacy Toward the Jews During the Hitlerian Period Afterword: America's Response to the Holocaust--A Controversy Bibliography Index
"Berman, "Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism, 1933-1948
The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience with Terrorism
Journal Article The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience with Terrorism. By Jeffrey D. Simon. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. x, 463 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-35249-5.) Get access Aaron Berman Aaron Berman Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1656–1657, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945446 Publishe…
FDR and the Holocaust
Journal Article FDR and the Holocaust. Ed. by Verne W. Newton. (New York: St. Martin's, 1996. x, 278 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-312-12226-8.) Get access Aaron Berman Aaron Berman Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 724–725, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952703 Published: 01 September 1997
Rescue Through Statehood
Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States
Bradley W. Hart knows how to tell a good story. Hitler's American Friends is well paced, informative, and fun to read (if the word fun can be used when discussing how fascism threatened to come to power in the United States). If I were teaching an introductory course on American politics and society in the 1930s and 1940s, I would certainly assign this book, not only because it provides a good introduction to the history of the far Right but also…
Ryan Gustafson, Derrida’s Social Ontology: Institutions in Deconstruction (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Kinds Before Their Concepts: Practical Anchoring and Conceptual Opacity in the Historiography of Race
Many social kinds are opaque in that they may be explanatorily useful without depending upon propositional attitudes directed at them. This article asks how historians can account for the emergence of opaque social kinds in advance of their recognition by contemporary actors without falling into problematic anachronism. To explore this problem, I examine the historical hypothesis that modern racial kinds emerged in the immediate post-Columbian pe…
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